Mr. Chair, I have just two comments.
First of all, I'd like, certainly from my part, to encourage the committee to wait for the report before we proceed with anything. I respect and understand where the member is coming from. I'm not sure his party has been in power since the Internet was created. But if we could wait for the report, I think it would be the right thing to do.
The other part, and I appreciate your raising this, is with respect to the access for proactive disclosure study or anything along those lines. I would be interested in understanding the committee's enthusiasm around a trip to Washington to look at some of the research and work that's being done in this area. I'm throwing that out there. We are in a period of fiscal restraint, as other members have raised here and certainly in the House in looking at our resources, but I think this would be a particularly useful trip. If managed properly, it would benefit us all and inform us in some very important ways as to what, as you pointed out in your earlier discussion, the United States of America is doing in this regard.
I'm interested in this. Of course, in the great Kenora riding I have a spreadsheet called the “get-'er-done spreadsheet”. It keeps track of all the projects we're doing since Canada's economic action plan has been implemented. Of course, it's quite a long list of all the things we're taking care of, now that we have an opportunity to do that.
There is important information on there that I've often felt my constituents should have access to. There is a process there, and there are certainly things we should think about that have to do with that information: How should it be accessible? Why should it be accessible? I think anything we can do to understand better would benefit this committee.
We all share an affection for the Obama administration, and if he is doing something that we can just build on, by golly, I think that might be a useful exercise.
So I put that out there for us to think about.